The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10

expiration of the constitutional ten
days limitations. Fifty bills failed To
cec0me laws owing to the adjournment
or congress, nine of them at the close
of the first session.
There We're 1872 bills vetoed by the
PRESIDENT, or twenty-one more in
stances Of the exercise of the presiden-
tlal preroeative of the veto than had
occurred from the foundation of the
Government down to the beginning of
this Congress. OF the vetoed bills.
ninety-six originated in the House and
thirty mine in the Senate. But one
private bill, namely, that providing fol
the erection of Government building
at Dayton, Ohio, succeeded in passing
both houses over the Presidents veto,
although several others obtained the
Iwo-thirds vote in the Senate, only to
fail in the House.
The death roll of this Congress was
also an extraordinary one, comprising
the unprecedented number of thirteen
| names III the House and Senate. They
are those of Nice-PreSident Hendricks.
President of the Senate, Senator Miller,
OF California, Pike, of New = Hamp-
shire, Logan, of Illinois, and Rep essen
tativeS Hahn. of Louisiana. Arnot.
Beach and DOwdney, of New York,
| Price, of Wisconsin, Cole, of Maryland.
ElwoOd, of Illinois, Duncan. of Penn
| SyIvania. and Rankin. of Wisconsin
But one election case was decided by
the House against the sitting member
and the Congress was characterized by
| an absence of that ceremonious discus
| sion which such contests usually awak-
en-. The Rhode Island case of Page VS..
Pierce, in which the House decided that
neither party was entitled to the seat,
| and new election was ordered. was
the one instance of a seat being taken
from sitting member. OF the ,053
House bills which became laws, 275
were of more or less public nature. OF
the remaining 67S bills granting PEN
tons or relief to specially designated
persons 156 became laws without the
approval of the President.
APPROVED BILLS.
The following bills were approved by
| the President before he left the White
| House for the Capitol to-day:
Acts in reference to the organization
| of reserve National Banks, to provide
for the settling accounts of the Vicks-
| burg and Meridian Railroad Company;
making appropriations for Legislative,
| Executive and Judicial experts of the
Government; making appropriations
| for the Post Office Department; to re-
gulate the Jurisdiction of Circuit
| Courts; making appropriations for Ma
| val Service: making appropri-
| ations for the District of
Columbia; for adjustment of land
grants and forfeiture of unearned
lands; to provide for the expenses of
the Investigations ordered by the Sem
| ate during the session.
BILLS NOT SIGNED.
The following bills passed both
Houses, but as they were not signed by
the President, they failed to become
laws: The River and Harbor Bill;
claim of w. II. Emery for 500, 900; the
bill to prevent the employment of alien
labor; the bill to open strip public land
South of Kansas, for settlement; the
ton Territory; the bill for printing maps
| of the General Land Office, and num-
Der of private relief bills.
THE PRESIDENT AT THE CAPITOL.
It was understood up to late hour
OF the forenoon that the President
would not occupy his room at the Cap
| itOl, as has been the custom for prede-
cessors, but nevertheless he came,
being Influenced doubtless to some eX-
tent by messages sent to him from
members of both branches. Speaker
| Carlisle telephoned at ii that the Pres
| ldent'S presence was necessary to save
the District of Columbia and Deficiency
Bills, which could not be enrolled in
time to reach the White House. nearly
two miles away. Senators Sherman
and Salisbury, the committee appoint
ed on the part of the Senate to notify
the President that the Congress await
ed any final message he might have to
send, caused it to be known that they
| would perform the duty by going to the
President room at the Capitol and il
they did not find him there would re-
port the fact to the Senate. assuming
that he had no further communications
to make.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMIN ATOMS REJECTED
The following nominations were re-
jected by the Senate this morning
Oliver Shannon, of North Platte
Nebraska, receiver of public money al
that place; Chas. f. Daily, of Tucson
Arizona, to be register of land office al
that place.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED
| The following nominations were con
firmed by the Senate this morning
Henry r. Harris. Georgia. Third Assist
ant Postmaster General; ID. II. Maury
of Virginia, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
United States to the Republic of Co
lumbia; James NJ. Trotter, of Massa
chusetts, Recorder of Deeds in the
District of Columbia g. w. Julian, OF
Irvington, Ind, Surveyor General OF
New Mexico; Chauncey r. ShultZ, Of
United States at st. Louis, Mo. ; A. w
Greeley, Fifth Cavalry, Chief Sigma
Officer. with the rank of Brigadiel
General; Captain James HALLS, of the
District of Columbia, to be Commodore
in the Navy. Postmasters Missouri
VIM. McCruden, Nevada: Kansas
c. H. Carson, Ashland; w. II. Well
Coffeyville.
THE CORONADO MASSACRE.
Latest From Parties Just From LeOt
Blood CurdIing Details SOf th'
Desperate and Fatal AGtaek-VOl
Ieys Of Musketry-TVyO Wen Per1OF
ated with Twenty-Five Bullets
This mornings Topeka Common
, wealth gives the following additional
particular of the bloody ARRAY at Cor
onado, as given by gentleman just il
from Leoti:
''Some time during the week Coulter
who clerked in drug store in Leoti
borrowed case of beer from one O
/ the Coronado druggists, a DR.. Wright
which has been the custom between
them ever since the towns were start
( ed. On Saturday evening he receives
r word from Wright that he wanted tn
t case returned that evening or tn
: next morning sure. Coulter, bein
r busy, did not have time to at
tend to the matter until
short time before noon on Sunday
when a Coronado man came over ant
: insisted upon his coming over sure an
f bringing his friends. Then he went t
T Mr.. William Raines' livery stable an
engaged team to go over to Coronado
e After the team was hitched up Raine
asked him where he was going and h
told him Coronado RaiDes then eX